Marcus Aurelius Quotes

• Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.

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• Nothing is so conducive to greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and honestly everything that meets us in life.

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• Praise does not make anything better or worse.

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• Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

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• Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

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• Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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• For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

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• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

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• All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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• Observe always that everything is the result of a change.

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• What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

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• All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

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• If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgement about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgement now.

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• Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

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• To live each day as though one’s last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing—-here is perfection of character.

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• Soon you will have forgotten the world, and the world will have forgotten you.

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• A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.

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• Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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• No man is happy who does not think himself so.

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Marcus Aurelius (122)

Birth:	26th April, 0121
Death:	17th March, 0180
Nationality:	Roman
Profession:	Emperor, Philosopher

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Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

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